SARASOTA  - Everyone is invited to Walk Your Faith this Holy Week by experiencing “The Way” or “Stations of the Cross” on April 7. Sarasota Mayor Kyle Scott Battie, County Commissioner Joe Neunder, and twenty-seven Ministers representing twenty-three congregations of fourteen Denominations will take part in this event including Bishop Doug Scharf who is speaking at the Fourteenth station. The three-quarters-of-a-mile procession will stop for worship and prayer at each of the 14 stations. The Stations of the Cross event offers an opportunity to reflect on the different moments of Christ’s passion journey. A service booklet sharing the acts of worship for each station will be distributed to all pilgrims.

Click here to watch a video of a previous pilgrimage by the Sarasota Observer: https://youtu.be/YW0JGFqUFpQ  

Now in its 22nd year, Church of The Redeemer Episcopal Church has organized the pilgrimage since 1996 and began collaborating with the Sarasota Ministerial Association in 2001, opening the event to the general public.

7:00 AM -  Begin to Gather on Regal Hollywood Theatre sidewalk (1993 Main Street, Corner Main and 301)

7:20 AM - Welcome, overview instructions, invite to mass, singing, opening prayer Fr. Charleston Wilson 

1st Station:  1900 Main St. Curb, South side of street - City of Sarasota Mayor Kyle Scott Battie, Sarasota County Commissioner Joe Neunder                                                                                        

2nd Station: City Center Bldg. SE corner steps -  Fritz and Annie Maxwell, Church of The Redeemer                                                                                  

3rd Station: City Center SW corner at the side lot - Rev. Dr. Ruth Smalt, Pastor Siesta Key Chapel, Pastor Linda Tice, Trinity United Methodist Church                                

4th Station: Steps of Truist Bldg. - Deacon Humberto Alvia & Deacon Leo Pastore St. Jude Catholic Church     (Spanish/English) & Father Jerzy ‘George’ Suszko St. Martha’s Church & Head of the Venice Diocese Deanery                                                       

5th Station: SMH Bldg. /Tic-Tac front steps- Pastor Scott Young, Church Of Hope, Rev. WesleyTunstall     Pastor Koinonia Missionary Baptist & True Worship Churches, V.P. Newtown Community Ministries United                                                     

6th Station:1st Baptist - Men of Vision, Light Of The World Church, Male Ensemble “Mary, Did You Know?”,  Rev. Dr. John Cross, Pastor John Cross, FIRST SARASOTA The Downtown Baptist Church, Father Eric Scanlan Church of The Incarnation, Father Russell Wright St. Patrick Catholic Church       

7th Station:  Center of the roundabout, Main & Orange  Rev. Dr. Timothy Boggess Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr. Lal Hmingliani Brownie Pastor Church of The Palms                        

8th Station: Right street corner at C’Est La Vie - Pastor Eric Olsen, Faith Lutheran Church, Pastor Jeffrey R. Gross New Life Lutheran Church, Pastor Lynette McCleland, The Center of Hope Church                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

9th Station: Main St. crosswalk at Mattison’s, Rhett Morton and Camille Wilson, Church of the Redeemer Youth Group

10th Station: Center of Five Points Memorial roundabout, Main & Pineapple, Lourdes Guerrero & Sandra,  Church of the Redeemer Hispanic Congregation, (Spanish/English)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

11th Station: In Street 1st United Methodist Church Steeple - Pastor Woody Woodward, First United Methodist, Pastor Henry Porter, Evergreen Church, Pastor Danny Preston Mt. Calvary Baptist Church & President NCMU            

12th In Front of Paul Thorpe Sign, Pineapple Pk-District Superintendent SW District United Methodist, Church Rev. Deborah L. Allen, Pastor Dr. Ken Blyth, St. Armands Key Lutheran Church & Dean of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America's Mid-Gulf Conference, Men of Vision, Light Of The World, Church, Male Ensemble “Were You There?” and Jud Boedecker Church of the Redeemer

13th Station: North side of the roundabout, Ringling & Pineapple, Pastor Jay Rosario Sarasota Seventh-day, Adventist Church, Rev. Rod Myers, Ministerial Board, Retired Pastor Central Church of Christ                                       

14th Station: Steps Church of the Redeemer - The Rt. Rev. Dr. Douglas F. Scharf, VI Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida, The Rev. Charleston Wilson, Rector, Church of the Redeemer

Following the Stations, the Church of the Redeemer warmly invites the community to attend the service of Morning Prayer inside the church. Chaplains Valerie and Jerry Devos, Arise Ministries, and Pastor Jason Kuniholm Covenant Mennonite Fellowship willjoin Fr. Wilson.